A very short story about 'working' and 'work' from 1979. I was 21.

Originally written in October, 1979Copyright © 1979 by Carl J. Mistlebauer. He comes in, “Hi Carl, business been steady?” He gives his skull-face a spin around to observe all in the store. Nothing in the store changes, yet he always has to look around to familiarize himself with the store. As he bullies around in the back storage room getting ready to prepare the floors, I cannot help but…

The first in what I assume will be a series on celebrating life!

I am now fighting cancer for the third time in my life. I did not make a big deal out of my first battle with cancer (testicular) back in 1989. I remember being worried about completing all the tasks of my job before surgery and I also wanted to make sure that I did not miss any work. I was young and believed, that somehow, this event would not change my life as I was destined to live a long…

Two ideas that I hope to explore via this blog is the concept of ‘change’ and then that of ‘conversations.’ How much do we really change from our youth to old age? Then the idea of having ‘conversations’ via the internet is one that has always fascinated me. I will explore the changes in my own life via the various writings I created as a young man, a man I once was, and the questions those…

I would like to thank you for stopping by and hopefully taking the time to read, think about, and hopefully commenting on the various posts. I literally have about eight journals, three notebooks, various short stories, poems, and files full of writings that I created over the course of the 1970’s and 1980’s. I want to share those now and to compare the ideas I had as a young man with the ideas…

An 18 year old Bhumibol Adulyadej became King of Thailand in 1946.

1946, a year after WWII, in Southeast Asia.

70 years later he passes away.

 He led Thailand through the rebuilding after WWII, through the period of the Vietnam War, and finally up to today.

Its easy to complain that he did not do enough to promote democracy but lets admire him for what he did accomplish.  That can easily be documented by looking at Thailand’s neighbors (Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Indonesia) and comparing their 1946 to 2016 history with that of Thailand.

He truly was a great leader.....

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voZ-kRCtLYw)

Look around me, I can see my life before me Running rings around the way it used to be I am older now I have more than what I wanted But I wish that I had started long before I did

And there's so much time to make up everywhere you turn Time we have wasted on the way So much water moving underneath the bridge Let the water come and carry us away

Oh when you were young did you question all the answers Did you envy all the dancers who had all the nerve? Look round you now, you must go for what you wanted Look at all my friends who did and got what they deserved

So much time to make up everywhere you turn Time we have wasted on the way So much water moving underneath the bridge Let the water come and carry us away